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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Charleston, SC

September 3, 2019Berkeley County, Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood watch at Sep 3, 2019, 3:34 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It took effect at Sep 4, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2019, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 4, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 5, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Flood severity: None

Counties Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 3, 1:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 1:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 11:03 PM EDT	Storm Surge Warning	CHS		63 hr
Sep 3, 3:44 AM EDT	High Surf Advisory	CHS		64 hr
Sep 3, 11:03 AM EDT	Hurricane Warning	CHS	Berkeley	57 hr
Sep 3, 11:14 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	64 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.